Canada shocked Bush on invasion: diplomat

[grytpype]

Canada shocked Bush on invasion: diplomat

http://www.dawn.com/2005/02/11/int6.htm

OTTAWA, Feb 10: The Bush administration had expressed "anger and Irritation" when Ottawa refused to join the allied forces that invaded Baghdad, according to Michael Kergin, Canada's outgoing ambassador to Washington.

In a detailed interview with The Toronto Star, the 62-year-old career diplomat revealed for the first time the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when Prime Minister Jean Chritien decided to keep Canadian troops out of Iraq.

He said that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the runup to the invasion. Despite all the signs and statements from Ottawa about the need for United Nations backing, the decision somehow still caught official Washington off guard, he said.

"It's like you can't quite believe it when you're told it and you really believe in the end it would happen. And in this case, it didn't."

Of course Canada didn't join the invasion, it was totally illegal. Aggressive war, plain and simple.

[brainshrub]

1. Bush, like many RW ignorant Americans, consider Canada a 51st state.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. Atleast we have a deceit nation as a neighbor, wish it was us

:kick:

[DeaconBlues]

3. Too bad Chritien didnt roll over and beg for scraps

just like Blair, huh, Georgie?

[charlie]

4. They didn't hear any objection from Prime Minister Poutine

so they figured all was cool... until this Chretien character came out of left field.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. Too funny

I can just imagine the Chimp, scratching his little chimp head and wondering-- "Who is this Crechin fella and what's he got ta do with Canada?"

[jdj]

5. So I guess the new tactic is for newspapers to make their

headlines so incoherent you have to read the story to figure out wtf they are talking about.

I couldn't figure out if Bush invaded Canada or if Canada invaded Bush. :shrug:

[w4rma]

13. Obfuscation. Not a new tactic, however. Folks are just more aware. (nt)

[Hoping4Change]

22. If you were in Canada the headline would be clear as day.

The PM was no fan of GWB and he in no way bought into the delusion that the invasion would be a cake walk. Any shock Americans had is evidence that everyone in the US Adminstration is a lackey and therefore can't comprehend someone not drinking the koolaid.

[CoffeeCat]

6. Typical sociopathic dunderhead...

...to believe that the world will just fall in line--behind your stupid, ill-planned, rash war-mongering adventure.

Did you hear that everyone.... * was "angered and irritated."

Maybe * should be a bit more "humbled and introspective". Maybe then he'd discover that he's an out-of-control Hitlereque rat who is not entitled to the respect and support of other nations--just because he says, "Come on man. We're doin some invadin tonight!"

So typical of that pea-brained little gnat. He gets "irritated" when someone won't go along with his murdering, discombobulated rampage.

What a f*cking fool we have sitting in the Oval Office. The most pathetic aspect of all of this--is that the fool is oblivious because he spends most of his time being "irritated and angry"--like a petulant child who can't convince the other kids to blow up frogs with firecrackers.

Clown.

[NYC]

7. Hear only what you want to hear:

...administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals...

[HCeline69]

8. Kind of like my shock

when Kerry lost.

[applegrove]

9. The "spook" elders said the intelligence on Iraq formed no

The Canadian "spook" elders said the intelligence on Iraq (Canada received from the USA on WMD) follow no previously known pattern of what intelligence is supposed to look like. So they passed.


Good call from the Canadian Prime Minister.

[old blue]

10. I guess you're susceptible to "surprises" like that when

when you have your buddies remove dissenters from your sight and drop petals in frony of your feet.

[daleo]

11. Good for Chretien

Mulroney would have been in Iraq like a dirty shirt, same for Harper and Doris Day.

[TrustingDog]

21. teehee, that's so funny and true. n/t

[lovuian]

12. Wow Canada did what they told Bush No UN No go to war

Bush doesn't get it!!! He doesn't rule the world after all!!!

[radfringe]

14. it's not all that bad

Poland joined up -- so don't forget Poland

[moondust]

15. Probably applies to more than Canada.

The chauvinists currently mismanaging the U.S. gubmet assume the whole (free) world will eventually fall in line with whatever they decide. "Give 'em time, they'll come around." Dictatorial entities generally don't value the freedom or independence of others.

[Wilms]

16. At least * finally realized Canada was a no show.

Coulter insists they joined us in Indo-China. :eyes:

[saigon68]

17. Coulter is a Skank.

[Jazzgirl]

18. I believe the term is "Skank Ho."

:evilgrin:

[saigon68]

24. You are correct

I date myself in leaving off the "Ho" part.

LOL

[LinuxInsurgent]

19. Bush thought...

"eh...ignore them...the Canadians are just being pussies for their leftwing constituents...they know who is sugar daddy...they'll come around"...and THEN....

"WHAT! Why you Celine-Dion listening bastards! I'll show you...."

Good for Canada.

[Canuckistanian]

20. One of our proudest moments

And just about the only thing Jean Chrétien did right.

[GOPBasher]

23. Canada obeyed international law??? How dare they???? n/t

[0007]

25. Good for Canada and Chretien

The U.S. has turned into a stupid paranoid monster run by organized crime and religion.

[Redstone]

26. Shocked, I tell you...

Shocked! The Canadians wouldn't invade a country that hadn't done a damn thing to them, just because we wanted them to!

The NERVE of those people!

Redstone

[indepat]

27. A totally illegal aggressive war, plain and simple. My, my, but never

mind: the American people, if not most of the world, have ratified this war.

[Laurab]

28. "all but ignored the diplomatic signals" What a surprise

just like they "all but ignore" everything they don't want to hear. And "all but ignore" rational ideas. Sorry, shrubby, Canada is sane I guess.